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operation, but the doctor would not consent
to assume so great a responsibility.
“No, no,” he said, “I should fear flound
ering out of me dipth, and losing mesilf as
will as me patient. No, me frind, I niver
studied optics, farther than relates to gineral
practice, but I’ve been thinking if we could
get a passport to A., it’s my opinion that the
diver oculist Vandou would perform the
operation succissfully. Ond in consideration
of our services to siveral graceliss Yankees,
it stroikes me that the post surgeon at G.,
moight be indooced to intercade in the poor
boy’s behalf.”
“You are right,” said Mr. Lee, eagerly
seizing this hope of restoring his son’s sight.
“O doctor, do write to him at once, and I
will take the dear boy to A. as soon as possible,
and if he should regain sight, we shall owe
it to you.”
“Tush!* said the doctor, “me poor advoice
isn’t worth much, hut I’m willing to do ony-
thing I can.”
Accordingly, Doctor Maroney communi
cated his wishes to the post surgeon at G.
and through his agency, passports were ob
tained for Doctor Maroney, Mr. Lee, and
Tom, who immediately set forth on their
Northern journey.
Left in sole charge of the household, the
plantation, and the sanitarium, Mr. Washing
ton had little time for the indulgence of his
chronic grief. His lost child was frequently
the burden of his thoughts but latterly his
grief for her was less poignant than formerly
for he thought of Vi as with the mother who
had left them to join the white-robed throng
so many years ago. How or by what means
his child had died he could not know and did
not even conjecture, but that she was dead, he
felt sure. So applying himself assiduously to
the duties before him, he directed the various
departments under his care and despite the
scarcity of commodities incidental to war, he
kept his people in comfort.
("TO BE CONTINUED.)
A SHOWER OF MONEY.
Remarkable Response to an Appeal for Mis.
sionary Funds.
A S AN evangelist exhorter the
Rev. A. B. Simpson of New
York has no equal. His
special line is to induce
people to give money and
valuables to the missionary
cause. He showed what he could do recently
at the camp-meeting grounds in Old Orchard,
Me., where he roused an audience of 10,000
Christian Alliance members to such a point
that they gave over $100,000 in one day.
It took a powerful sermon to stir the en
thusiasm of the people, but that was exactly
the kind of sermon the Rev. Mr. Simpson
preached. Others who preceded him told of
the pressing needs of the missionary workers
in the far off fields of Asia and Africa. They
had drawn vivid word pictures of the difficul
ties of the work and had told how many were
still waiting to be saved. Their words were
well illustrated by two great maps hung be
tween the trees, on which the heathen coun
tries were indicated by dark spots. Then the
audience was told just what it would cost to
send a missionary to each of the different
fields.
With the ground thus prepared, Mr. Simp
son arose and urged the people to give. He
told them that Christ demanded that they
he gave his last fiftv cents the day before,
but since then] had earned $2, which he
offered. The next donation was the largest
one of the meeting. It consisted of $25,000
worth of stock from a New York man whose
name was not made known.
From this on the money simply rained
down on the men who went about, not with
plates or small boxes, but with big, capacious
baskets. Greenbacks, silver, gold, checks and
pledges to pay filled the receptacles again and
again. Slips of paper and pencils were dis
tributed about, that people might write out
promises to give. One man gave a piano, and
a woman followed by giving a $500 cottage.
Then a missionary named Creamer made
an impassioned appeal, in which he sai:
“You can not hold up jeweled hands and
hands with gold and silver on them and have
them clean before God. There’s blood on
them ! Take them off! Take them off! Give
them to the Lord. They are for his work.”
The response to this was a perfect ava
lanche of jewelry. A woman started it by
taking off a handsome gold watch, which she
said was an heirloom, and tearfully donating
it to the cause. Others followed her example,
and rings, diamonds, chains, watches, brace-
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be his witnesses in the uttermost parts of
tbe’earth, He told them that if they refused
and did not fully comply with the command
that they were sinners. He told them that
they were all* debtors to Christ, and that
they could never liquidate that debt until
they had given everything and done every-,
thing possible.
Then the people responded. The first offer
ing was only $1. A man followed who said
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lets, many of ihern keepsakes and heirlooms,
were cast into the basket. Once in awhile
there would be a lull in the proceedings, and
then Mr. Simpson would say a few words
which would set the audience wild again.
Up and down the aisles of the tabernacle
of nature walked an attractive young woman
who did most effective work. She carried a
big basket, which was gradually filling up
with a miscellaneous collection of jewelry.
This was Miss Louise Shepard, who has
charge of the “iron for gold” branch of the
alliance work. Miss Shepard has a special
facility in inducing people to give up gold
watches and accept in their place timekeepers
with iron cases, inscribed with the motto,
“Iron For Gold For God’s Sake.”
Miss Shepard started this form of raising
money several years ago. She first became
prominent in the work at a meeting of the
New York State Christian alliance, which
was held in 1891 at Round Lake, near Sara
toga. Until a few months previously she had
been a society leader at Saratoga, but she had
become interested in the alliance work, and
when she first heard the Rev. Mr. Simpson,
who was leading the Round Lake meeting,
she became so carried away with religious
enthusiasm that she stripped two valuable
diamond rings from her fingers and laid
them on the altar with a cash donation of
$250 besides. Her example was followed by
many others, and a large amount was col
lected, but nothing like the great sum which
burdened the altar after Mr. Simpson had
finished his sermon at Old Orchard.
S. R. MacDONALD.
Lord Rosebery’s Orations on Burns.
Nothing more memorable occurred in con
nection with the centennial anniversary (July
21) of Robert Burns’ death than the orations
of Lord Rosebery. One was delivered in
Dumfries, where the house in which the poet
lived is still standing, and the other, in the
evening, in Glasgow. Both orations are
published in full in the London Times, July
22. The first speech deals chiefly with the
last years of Burns’ life, so full of sorrow,
sickness, and remorse. The orator begins by
referring to the scenes in and about Dum
fries, hallowed by Burns ; then speaks of the
debt Scotland owes to him (he preserved for
ever the Scottish dialect, which was fast
passing into oblivion); then passes on to the
world-wide celebration of the poet’s death, in
which “not a festival but a tragedy” is com
memorated :
“A century ago/in poverty, delirium, and
distress there was passing the soul of Robert
Burns. To him comes in clouds and darkness
the end of a long agony of body and soul. He
is harassed with debt, his bodily constitution
is ruined, his spirit is broken* his wife is
daily expecting her confinement. He has lost
almost all that rendered his life happy, much
of friendship, credit, and esteem. Some
score years before, one of the most charming
of English writers, as he lay dying was asked
if his mind was at ease, and with his last
breath, Oliver Goldsmith owned that it was
not. So it was with Robert Burns. His de
lirium mostly dwelt on the horrors of a jail,
he uttered curses on the tradesman who was
pursuing him for debt. ‘What business,’ said
he, to his physician, in a moment of con
sciousness, ‘what business has a physician
to waste his time upon me? I am a poor
pigeon not worth plucking ; alas ! I have not
feathers enough to carry me to my grave. ’ . .
“I suppose there are many who can read
the account of these last months with com
posure. They are more fortunate than I.
There is nothing much more melancholy In
all biography—the brilliant poet, the delight
of all society, from the highest to the lowest,
sits brooding in silence over the drama of
his spent life, the early innocent home, the
plow, and the savor of fresh-turned earth,
the silent communion with nature and his
own heart, the brief hour of splendor, the
dark hour of neglect, the mad struggle for
forgetfulness, the bitterness of vanished hom
age, the gnawing doubt of fame, the distress
ful future of his wife and children—an end
less witch-dance of thought without clew or
remedy, all-perplexing, all soon to end while
he is yet young, as men regard youth, though
none know so well as he that his youth is
gone, that his race is run, his message de
livered. ”
The speaker proceeded to consider the
question, “Was Burns fortunate in his
birth?” and concluded that “it was well that
he died when he did; it might even have
been better had he died a little earlier.”
But the gloom of his closing years finds a
brilliant contrast in his growing, deathless
fame. Here is Lord Rosebery’s eloquent
tribute to that fame :
“Burns had honor in his lifetime, but his
fame has rolled like a snowball since his
death, and it rolls on. There is, indeed,
no parallel to it in the world. It sets the cal
culations of compound interest at defiance.
He is not merely the watchword of a
nation, that carries and implants Burns wor
ship all over the world as birds carry seeds,
but he has become the champion and patron
saint of democracy. He bears the banner of
the essential equality of man. His birthday
is celebrated one hundred and thirty-seven
yoars after its occurrence more universally
than that of any human being. He reigns
over a greater dominion than any empire
that the world has ever seen. Nor does the
ardor of his devotees decrease. Ayr and Ellis-
land, Mauchline and Dumfries, are the
shrines of countless pilgrims. Burns statues
are a hardy annual. The production of Burns
manuscripts was a lucrative branch of industry
until it was checked by untimely interven
tion. The editions of Burns are as the sands
of the sea. No canonized name in the calen
dar excites so blind and enthusiastic a wor
ship. Whatever Burns may have contem
plated in his prediction, whatever dream he
may have fondled in the wildest moments of
elation, must have fallen utterly short of the
reality; and it is all spontaneous. There is
no puff, no advertisement, no manipulation.
Intellectual cosmetics of that kind are frail
and fugitive. They rarely survive their sub
ject. They would not have availed here.”
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A Historic Whist Hand.
One^cf the historic hands at whist was
once .held by the duke of Cumberland—a
hand which at first glance seemed to be abso
lutely unbeatable, but which did not take a
trick,® The duke held ace, king, queen and
knave" in one plain suit; ace, king
queen in another; ace and king in the third;
while in trumps he held king, knave nine
and seven (of clubs.) Yet with this per
fectly magnificent hand and the lead leading
also quite correctly, he did not make a single
trick.
This seems incredible, but the solution of
the problem is readily seen by the following
facts: The four trumps lying just over those
held by the Duke of Cumberland—viz., the
ace, queen, ten and eight—were on his left
with nine diamonds, while on his right were
five small trumps. He led a trump, which
was taken on his left and a diamond led—
trumped on his right. Another trump was
led through him which was similarly taken,
and another diamond led which was also
trumped on his right.
Another trump led through the duke caused
his last trump but one to fall. The last was
then extacted by the player on his left. The
duke had now no diamonds, that being the
suit of which he had held only the ace and
king. Then*the diamonds on his left were as
good as trumps and made all the remaining
tricks. The duke is said to have lost a wager
of 20,000 pounds in connection with this
hand.—Pearson’s Weekly.
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The imputation of inconsistency is one to
which every sound politician and every hon
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self. The foolish and the dead alone never
change their opinions . . . It is loyalty to
great ends, even though forced to combine
the small and opposing motives of selfish
men to accomplish them ; it is the anchored
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